F/X has acquired TV rights to the historical book Hue 1968 (Atlantic Monthly Press, June) by Mark Bowden for a limited event series. In the book Bowden, the author of Black Hawk Down, explores a critical turning point in the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. (Deadline Hollywood)
Francine River’s novel Bridge to Haven (Tyndale House, April 2014), about a starlet in 1950s Hollywood who is drawn back to her small hometown, has been optioned by Jordan Wagner and Deborah Giarratana. (Publishers Marketplace)
Patricia Lockwood's memoir Priestdaddy (Riverhead, May) has been optioned by Imagine Television. The book chronicles the author's eccentrically religious upbringing, with a focus on her left-of-center Catholic Priest father. (The Wrap)
The true crime book The Whiskey King (HarperCollins, April) by Trevor Cole, about a Canadian bootlegger named Rocco Perris who came to be known as his country's first celebrity mobster, has been optioned by Vitality Media Productions. (Pub Mktplc)
The YA novel The Goat (Groundwood, March) by Anne Fleming, about a girl who moves with her parents to a high-rise apartment in New York City that boasts a collection of kooky residents (including a goat that supposedly lives on the roof), has been optioned by David Lipman of Cirrina Studios, who will produce with David Womark. (Pub Mktplc)
HBO has optioned the nonfiction booke The Real Pepsi Challenge (Simon & Schuster, 2007) by Stephanie Capparell. Subtitled How One Pioneering Company Broke Color Barriers in 1940s American Business, Capparell's book chronicles a small group of African American men who became some of America's first black corporate executives through their jobs at Pepsi-Cola. (Pub Mktplc)
